\[Project Overview]

This repository contains the dataset and replication materials for the study:

| Aid Intensity and the Commitment–Compliance Gap in Human Rights

The project examines whether higher levels of Foreign aid dependence are associated with a divergence between:

* Formal human rights commitments (ICCPR ratification)
* Observed political repression outcomes (Political Terror Scale)

The central construct is the Commitment–Compliance Gap (Gap A), which captures repression conditional on treaty commitment.



\[File	Description]

* **Dataset\_final\_upload.csv**
  :	Final merged panel dataset used for regression analysis
* **PTS-2025\_uploaded.xlsx**
  : Political Terror Scale raw data
* **ODA dependence\_uploaded.csv**
  : Aid Dependence raw data
* **OP+PTS+Gap\_upload.xlsx**
  :	Intermediate dataset containing ICCPR commitment, PTS, and constructed gap variables
